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Mercy Sister Karen Schneider, who is a pediatrician, talks with the mother of a child in the emergency room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 2014. U.S. health care seemed stuck in the waiting room for part of the year, holding out for its future prognosis from courtroom and political decisions. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Matthew Loftus
Jesus’ words are not a commentary on state welfare.
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Agnieszka Krawczynski - Catholic News Service
"The reason we have freedom of conscience is not just to protect ourselves."
Politics & SocietyPhilosopher's Notebook
John J. Conley, S.J.
Erasing good news about people with disabilities can only encourage the choice to abort people with Down syndrome in the first place.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
Apartheid-era mental health care facilities were not great. But at least they weren't lethal.
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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The number of questions from Catholic organizations to N.C.B.C.’s ethicists about transgender issues “has increased radically and surprisingly” in recent years.
Politics & Society
Mario J. Paredes
Medical science must answer its highest calling: the promotion of the health and well-being of all humankind.